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Radical protesters, demanding the release of political prisoners in Ukraine, clashed on Tuesday with Interior Ministry and law enforcement members during a rally for Day of Ukrainian Cossacks near the parliament building in Kyiv, Oct. 14, 2014. The day is marked by activists and supporters of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda (Freedom) Party and...

(KIEV, Ukraine) — Clashes broke out Tuesday between demonstrators and police in front of Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev as deputies inside repeatedly voted down proposals to recognize a contentious World War II-era Ukrainian partisan group as national heroes. Thousands of Svoboda nationalist party supporters rallied earlier in the capital in...

Supporters of Ukraine’s nationalist Svoboda party and security forces clashed near the country’s parliament in Kiev on Tuesday, Associated Press, or AP, reported. The protesters reportedly demanded that the government honor the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought for Ukraine during the World War II, as national heroes. …read...

KIEV, Ukraine—Clashes have broken out in front of Ukraine’s parliament between unruly demonstrators and lines of police guarding the building. Passions ran high outside the building Tuesday as deputies repeatedly voted down proposals to officially recognize a contentious World War II-era Ukrainian partisan group as national heroes....

The top U.S. and Russian diplomats are hoping to find a way to begin reversing a yearlong spike in tensions stemming from Ukraine’s revolution and civil war when they meet Tuesday. …read more Source: CTV...

Hundreds of Ukrainian National Guard conscripts protested in front of the presidential administration building in Kyiv to demand demobilization on October 13. As evening fell, they were confronted by injured war veterans telling them to continue the fight against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Despite a cease fire since September 5,...